User talk:Qui1che

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Stugeon River Naming
Thanks for the help on the renaming certain Sturgeon River articles and the disambiguation page for Sturgeon River -- and the incidental introduction to the WP Rivers project for this author. Question: could it make more sense to rename Sturgeon River (Manitoba) to Sturgeon River (Echoing River)? The river is mostly in Ontario, so Manitoba doesn't seem quite correct; however, it is a tributary of the Echoing River, of which there is only one in Canada (per the Atlas of Canada), so Sturgeon River (Echoing River) would be unique. papageno 03:38, 16 November 2007 (UTC)
 * My reason for naming it Sturgeon River (Manitoba) is that its mouth is in Manitoba, and moreover, a search on Geographical Names of Canada shows that this is the only Sturgeon River in that province. Regardless, I don't mind either way... -- P199 15:22, 16 November 2007 (UTC)

WikiProject Germany Invitation
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External map service links
Hello. You have been identified as having added or removed direct external map service links in articles. There is a discussion at Wikipedia talk:External links about which should be done, and some more opinions would be good to find community consensus. --Para (talk) 23:08, 8 February 2008 (UTC)

Re:Help with Images
Of the three images you're trying to place in Fehmarn Sound Bridge, only one is on Wikimedia Commons and thus available on the English Wikipedia. The other two are present on the German Wikipedia only. Since all the images involved are freely licensed, you should be able to move them to Commons so they are available on other projects, including the English 'pedia. Algebraist 11:05, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Sockpuppetry case
You have been accused of sockpuppetry. Please refer to Suspected sock puppets/Qui1che for evidence. Please make sure you make yourself familiar with notes for the suspect before editing the evidence page. CleanUpX (talk) 11:53, 29 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi Qui1che, I see that you do have a point in Suspected sock puppets/Qui1che. Do not worry, if I have wrongly accused you, I will make a formal apology on your talk page and on Wi-Fi talk page. In the meantime, we should work toward finding out the real culprit who may have potentially tried to frame you. If you refer to the Wi-Fi talk page, another open proxy is creating havoc there. CleanUpX (talk) 09:51, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
 * Hi CleanUpX (talk). I appreciate your comments and your offer. You will forgive me if I complete the reply to the original sockpuppetry case, which I will attend to later today; I feel it is required. I would view it as an act of kindness on your part if you were to add the same comments and offer you have made here to the sockpuppetry case page, if that is possible technically.
 * If you wish to pursue an investigation of the other mystery IP address users, please feel free to do so (you don’t need my approval, of course!). While I will be happy to supply any facts that you might otherwise be unable to gather directly in support of such a pursuit, pursuing the case is not my interest. Rather, I would like to get one with reviewing the content that for the Wireless electronic devices and health article and suggesting and reviewing changes to the content on that article’s talk page. papageno (talk) 16:46, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I have added the same comments in Suspected sock puppets/Qui1che. I have a few questions here for you. Since when did you get to know RDOlivaw? Do you think his edits have always been neutral? Do you think he has always been trying to enforce his POV and suppress views to the contrary? Were you shocked when you learnt that he was using multiple accounts abusively? CleanUpX (talk) 19:19, 30 April 2008 (UTC)
 * I do not know user RDOlivaw. He or she was active on several health and technology pages. I am sure you can check the contribution logs for the user to figure out where and when the user was active. As to your other questions, I respectfully decline to address them. papageno (talk) 06:51, 1 May 2008 (UTC)

EMFs and Health and other related issues
Hi, I've been very absent from working on any Wiki content recently, and just got pulled back after I was informed about some ad-hominem attacks thrown my way on the WiFi talk page. Ended up having a quick look around EMF related pages to catch up a bit, and just wanted to say thanks and congratulations for some serious amount of work you seem to have been putting in. Some really well written and balanced material Topazg (talk) 08:59, 14 May 2008 (UTC)

Convert template
Wow, didn't know it existed. Good to know TravellingCarithe Busy Bee 05:08, 22 May 2008 (UTC)
 * see more discussion at User_talk:Travellingcari --papageno (talk) 19:08, 22 May 2008 (UTC)

EHS References
Hello there. Over on the renamed electromagnetic hypersensitivity article we're trying to find a few more sources for various things (specifically psychological aspects and claims/inferences of a psychosomatic explanation). Also, I'd like to discuss updating the external links section; a report from 1995 seems less credible than many of the references we already have. I'd suggest putting the Rubin Review there, and anything you might be able to suggest? You seem a dab hand with these kind of references, so I thought I'd come to you. Thanks for your input so far. Verbal  chat  16:56, 25 July 2008 (UTC)

Help with Geobox2 Template - River - coordinate parameters
I require help with using the coordinate parameters in the Geobox2 river template. Please see talk page entry. --papageno (talk) 16:51, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
 * You might want to ask at the Help desk, or wait for someone to answer your question on the template talk page. Ten Pound Hammer  and his otters • (Broken clamshells • Otter chirps • HELP) 16:57, 14 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Thanks TenPoundHammer for your kind reply, but I had already been to that page and took its recommendation to put helpme on my talk page, so it seems I'm going around in circles. :-) Since it has been two weeks without reply on the Geobox talk page, I'd like to reinstate in order to try and get an answer to the question, which is what I received last time I used . --papageno (talk) 03:02, 16 December 2008 (UTC)


 * I don't think it's going to help any more this time. No one in #wikipedia-en-help knows anything about templates. Ten Pound Hammer  and his otters • (Broken clamshells • Otter chirps • HELP) 03:06, 16 December 2008 (UTC)
 * TenPoundHammer, I give you full marks for speed of reply and candid talk! Thanks for the advice; will head to the Help Desk. --papageno (talk) 03:15, 16 December 2008 (UTC)

Geobox Parameters
Mornin'... I get what your are trying to do with _type... and it is clear that you are just as familiar with Geobox as I am (or more so). I think if two of us were hacking on it we'd have a better chance of success. However, the problem is I don't know what you want the display to look like. What do you want the final output to look like for the parameter in question? (I ask because, without a super-deep understanding of how the parameter passing works for the template, one needs to know the desired outcome if one is going to try and brute force a result.) Cheers, &mdash;Noah 16:54, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
 * I think I have found the answer. See update back at the Helpdesk query. I think the Template:Geobox/legend section will need to be updated to read (bold = my additions) "For every location type which can be described in coordinates, there exist two additional fields
 * _coordinates_type (named coordinates_type for the main location), which can contain any paramteres…"--papageno (talk) 17:18, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Ah-ha! Nicely done. I see you made the change. &mdash;Noah 17:21, 17 December 2008 (UTC)
 * Noah, can you make the suggestion about updating the text on the Template:Geobox/legend page section? I think someone involved with the Geobox template should check it over. I suspect the change does work for all instances, but maybe we just got lucky and it works with mouth and source for rivers only.--papageno (talk) 18:25, 17 December 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the help with parameter labeling in Geobox. --Bejnar (talk) 16:21, 19 December 2008 (UTC)


 * I thought you might be interested in this ongoing BRFA and lend any insight. Cheers, – xeno talk  00:03, 18 March 2010 (UTC)

John Street (Toronto)
I hope you have this on your watch list. The vandals and the prostitutes will be back. Secondarywaltz (talk) 18:34, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

Autoreviewer
Hi, after seeing one of your articles at newpage patrol, I was surprised to see that an editor who has contributed quite so many articles as you hadn't already been approved as an wp:Autoreviewer. So I've taken the liberty of rectifying that.  Ϣere Spiel  Chequers  18:01, 29 December 2009 (UTC)

Arnold River (New Zealand)
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 * The content of the then existing page Arnold River was copied deliberately to a new page Arnold River (New Zealand), so that the Arnold River page could be converted to a disambiguation page. Edit summaries at both pages document the changes and reasons therefore. The split second delay between the creation of the new and conversion of the existing page allowed the bot to find a similarity. --papageno (talk) 18:29, 3 February 2010 (UTC)

Articles for deletion nomination of West Highland Creek
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Links to State School
If you can make that request, that'd be great! :) --User:Woohookitty Disamming fool! 14:24, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
 * Sure. I'll see what I can do. :) --User:Woohookitty Disamming fool! 15:28, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
 * I just did about 20-25. I'll rollback the rest tonight. --User:Woohookitty Disamming fool! 15:33, 21 July 2010 (UTC)
 * OK. I believe I got them all. If I didn't, let me know. --User:Woohookitty Disamming fool! 05:41, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

Correcting code for template in my sandbox with goal for it to become part of the template Infobox Canada electoral district
Request help in writing the correct code three fields in a template. The code will ultimately go into Infobox Canada electoral district. I am wishing to add the fields coordinates, coordinates_caption, and coordinates_date to the existing Infobox code. If you actually go to the Infobox Canada electoral district page code, you will see that I thought I had everything right and had added the code, but it did not degrade gracefully when the parameters were missing. I've commented it out for now (although I did not revert the documentation). Back to testing! The test template is in my sandbox at User:Qui1che/Sandbox/Template:Infobox Canada electoral district Test. An implementation of it is also in my sandbox at Sandbox.--papageno (talk) 17:57, 22 September 2010 (UTC)


 * I've just made an example page, to give the basic idea; I made User:Qui1che/if which contains just this;

START {{#if: {{{myparameter|}}} | {{{myparameter}} | }} END


 * If I put just it displays:


 * If I put it displays:


 * In other words...if the parameter called "myparameter" is set to something, it displays it; otherwise, it displays nothing.


 * I hope that will at least point you in the right direction; beyond that, I suggest looking at mw:Help:Extension:ParserFunctions, mw:Help:Parser_functions_in_templates and/or use Requested templates.


 * Cheers,  Chzz  ► 20:14, 22 September 2010 (UTC)

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Temagami townships
I see the mess you are making with Temagami township articles. The townships are not known as "XXXX, Ontario". The proper terminology is "XXXX Township". These are not names of communities. Instead, they are geographic townships are used for geographic purposes, such as land surveying. They should be moved back to their original titles.  Volcano guy  04:34, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the message. There was no intention to create a mess. I know there are townships in Ontario with the format "XXXX, Ontario", for example Limerick, Ontario and Wollaston, Ontario to name just two. I can see that there are also many in the Category:Townships of Ontario with the format "XXXX Township", though a quick skim suggest they are for the most part historic or defunct entities. I do agree that the "XXXX Township" should prevail when there is a risk of confusion between a place named "ABC" and a township named "ABC". I am not certain it should prevail over Manual_of_Style_(Canada-related_articles); on the other hand, are geographic townships "places"? The Geographic Names Board database seems to classify them as a "Geographical area". Do you know if there is a consensus that has been reached on township naming, or geographic township naming via a discussion on the Wikipedia talk:Canadian Wikipedians' notice board? As an aside, are the geographic townships a legal entity of the municipality (in this case Temagami) or the county or district (in this case Nipissing District)? If the latter, if further clarity were needed in a name, the format should be "XXXX (Township), Nipissing".
 * In the meantime, I promise not to make any more moves; I will just added content to the articles as they are named. Thanks again. --papageno (talk) 05:16, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Ok. Well, the common usage is "XXXX Township" for these areas though as far as I am aware of. Whenever I do geographic/geologic research in the Temagami area they are almost always known as "XXXX Township". I moved them back for this reason (WP:AT). Places like Limerick, Ontario though seem like municipalities but the Temagami townships (e.g. Strathy, Strathcona, Chambers) are not. It's confusing I know. The Geographic Names Board database discribes the Temagami townships as "geographical areas" because that's what they are. I do remember reading something (guideline?) that geographic articles are titled "XXXX (Ontario)" whereas communities are titled "XXXX, Ontario". This is why I named townships like Chambers "Chambers Township (Temagami)" insted of "Chambers Township, Temagami". Geographic townships may or may not cover the same jurisdictional area of a community township. In Temagami's case, geographic townships like Strathy, Chambers, Strathcona and others are within the municipal boundaries of Temagami.  Volcano guy  06:03, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
 * Was writing another verbose comment and got the edit conflict message as you beat me to the punch with your addition just above. DOH! OK, well back to the drawing board…
 * I thought about it some more, and I agree: geographic townships should be "XXXX Township". Almost all in the Category:Townships of Ontario are in that format or "XXXX Township, Ontario", and, even if they were formally active and now defunct, that counts as a geographic township too. The other townships I cited like Limerick and Wollaston in the format "XXXX, Ontario" are in the different Category:Township municipalities in Ontario.
 * While you are correct, that geographic features take the format "XXXX (region/district etc), I think I would argue that geographic townships are more places like towns rather than features like rivers, lakes or mountains. I am not sure I could give you a deep rationale on that. One could point out that all the townships in the Category:Township municipalities in Ontario seem to follow the place pattern rather than the feature pattern. I would thus arguve that Chambers Township (Temagami) should be changed to at least "Chambers Township, Temagami" and better to "Chambers Township, Ontario"; there is only one township named Chambers in Ontario, so the ", Ontario" precision is sufficient, and I believe the rule of thumb is to use the top level precision or minimum precision required. It also seems to match the nomenclature format of the vast majority of townships in the Category list. Any other townships with "(Temagami)" or ", Temagami" precision should be changed to ", Ontario", unless we can find via Geonames another township in Ontario with the same name, in which case I would go one more level down in precision to the district, in this case thus using ", Nipissing District".
 * I am not quite certain why you seem to have reverted some other changes. For example, a series of references have been moved to External links. However, the items are required to verify content in the article; for example, the Geonames item certifies there is such a place as well as the coordinates and district & province. The Wildlife map gives the surrounding townships. Thus, they are references and not links for more information. If you are uncomfortable with them as general references and would prefer them inline — which I agree is better practice — I am sure we could work out where to place them inline. I also note you changed the township link back to Township from Township (Canada); why not use the main article about townships in Canada and direct the user to the Ontario section? You have also reverted back in some cases to the term "geographical township". I believe the correct term is "geographic township". In addition, do we need to specify in the article about the township that geographic townships are used in surveying and mining? I guess it can't hurt, but that information is provided in the Township (Canada) article Ontario section. Sorry for a long posting. It's also late here so I will need to sign off for now and comment on any replies tomorrow. Best regards.--papageno (talk) 06:42, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I actually didn't realize you piped "township" to Township (Canada), which is why I removed them. Same for "geographic township". Because it is correct I piped "township" back to "Township (Canada)#Ontario". This discussion is sounding a bit like User:Skookum1's many comments about BC's regional districts and BC's geography. Even though geographic townships are not features such as rivers and mountains, they still have more to do with geography than towns. You are missing the point that geographic townships are for geographic purposes, not politics. The Geographic Names Board database discribes the Temagami townships as "geographical areas". Geographic areas/regions use "XXXX (XXXX)", as in Empty Quarter (North America). So I still think the titles should be "XXXX Township (Ontario)". I removed the Wildlife map because there is really no need for it. There is a map that shows the geographic townships in the Falconbridge Limited Exploration: Geology of the Lecky Property Assessment Report source I added when I created their articles. As for the other references you added, I just didn't think they were necessary in the "References" section; I will fix that problem. I mentioned that the Temagami townships are used for land surveying and natural resource explorations in their articles because most articles that link to them have stuff to do with Earth sentences (i.e. geography and geology). Thus, someone reading one of Temagami's Earth science articles (e.g. Temagami greenstone belt) are more likely to see the Temagami township articles insted of the Township (Canada) article and wonder what they are used for. Also, the Temagami area has a long history of mining and surveying. There should probably be a Category:Geographic townships of Ontario since there is enough geographic township articles created.  Volcano guy  08:30, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
 * From comparing the Falconbridge Limited Exploration: Geology of the Lecky Property Assessment Report and Wildlife maps, the Wildlife map is better. So I have replaced the Lecky Property Assessment Report source with the Wildlife one.  Volcano guy  09:22, 14 February 2011 (UTC)
 * I have started a discussion on the Wikipedia talk:Canadian Wikipedians' notice board.  Volcano guy  00:31, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

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Re the content of the articles: take your points, and that aspect is closed. Continue the discussion about the nomenclature at the Canadian Wikipedians' notice board; thanks for starting things off there.--papageno (talk) 05:51, 15 February 2011 (UTC)

Talkback
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Johnny Creek (Temagami)
I was wondering if you could add anything to this article. A photo is possible because I live not too far away from it.  Volcano guy  21:45, 14 December 2011 (UTC)

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This might be wrong...
In Moore_Creek_(Nipissing_District) the article states that the western branch of the Moore picks up a part of Papineu creek. I do not believe this is correct, the Papineu flows out of a different set of lakes and marshes than the Moore. Where did this info come from? Maury Markowitz (talk) 21:12, 20 September 2012 (UTC)
 * I suspect it was based on reading topographic maps available on-line at the time, or it may have been faulty on my part. As well, there have been new on-line top maps introduced since, and it is pretty clear that Papineau Creek is not a tributary! I will amend the article in a moment. Thanks for having caught this. --papageno (talk) 15:00, 21 September 2012 (UTC)

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Rabbit Lake (Ontario)
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Summit Lakes
In early December I found an article you created called Summit Lakes (Ontario). I added Category:Lakes of Temagami and Temagami as the location in the infobox since it appears to be inside the municipal boundaries. I am just wondering how many lake articles you have created that could be added as well.  Volcano guy  03:01, 4 February 2014 (UTC)
 * I'm sorry but I really have no idea how many articles I may have authored or helped to author that are in the Temagami area. If I come across one I will try and update the category with the more accurate one you have kindly created. --papageno (talk) 19:58, 4 February 2014 (UTC)

19th and 20th centuries
Hi Qui1che. I've been doing a bit of disambiguation work, and i've run across a few articles where you seem to have confused the 19th century for the 20th. Without intending to be patronising, i feel i ought to just check that you do remember the 19th ran from 1801 to 1900 and the 20th from 1901 to 2000, right? If i show you a couple of the corrections i've made you'll probably see the reason for my concern: I was making clear which Hudson Bay Railway was meant  and  and  and perhaps a few others i haven't bothered to note. I wonder if you may know of any other places in your contributions with this error, so we can track 'em down and correct them? Cheers, LindsayHello 09:17, 1 March 2014 (UTC)
 * Thanks for having caught this, Lindsay. I do know the difference in centuries, but apparently, not on the days I was adding to the articles you discovered! Since I am mostly active in Ontario articles, I hope it is only a few Manitoba articles related to the railway to Churchill where the problem crops up. The best way to check is I think using the category Northern Region, Manitoba. --papageno (talk) 16:50, 2 March 2014 (UTC)

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Canadian Northern Ontario Railway Federal Bridge
You greatly expanded this article in 2011 and changed its name in the process. It used to be CNoR but then was expanded to Canadian Northern Ontario Railway Federal Bridge. Well those are two different companies, and the "Ontario" part only applied to a line running out of Toronto - the lower-case "o" in CNoR referred to "of", not "Ontario". I think it's highly unlikely this bridge in the Ottawa area had "Ontario" in the name, but I could be wrong. Do you have any way to check? Maury Markowitz (talk) 12:38, 10 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Maury, thanks. I honestly don't remember what made me use presisely that title four years ago. However, what you say—with a cursory check on my part—does seem to make sense. Do you want to perhaps propose it on the article's talk page, and perhaps at the Canada Canadian Wikipedians' notice board - Requested moves, mergers and splits? Sorry, you are an experienced editor so I didn't need to say that! --papageno (talk) 16:38, 11 July 2015 (UTC)
 * Actually I didn't think of either. I've written on a few public forums, we'll see what that turns up. So far it looks like the move is correct and I'm wrong; the line I'm thinking of appears to be the CNoR,JBRy, and does not appear to have been called the Ontario anything! Maury Markowitz (talk) 21:07, 13 July 2015 (UTC)
 * OK it's confirmed, I'm wrong. The line in question definitely did have "Ontario" in it. Maury Markowitz (talk) 11:49, 18 July 2015 (UTC)
 * OK, thanks for letting me know. Thank you too for the courteous handling of the matter. --papageno (talk) 01:38, 20 July 2015 (UTC)

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To interested parties of Geobox river, I'd like to get your feedback on several issues related to the recent Template for Deletion (Tfd) discussion (links to previous discussions about the same merge topic: from 2013 and 2017/2018), and the resulting merge process at Infobox river. I have been attempting to engage with the template coding group of users at Infobox river talk, to my view without success. Here is the feedback I seek:
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 * If you believe the Tfd was conducted hastily, sloppily, and without the participation of all interested parties
 * What action should be taken in light of the two above points?
 * make a strong show of comment at the merge discussion to insist that all functionality be included?
 * should a request for some fort of dispute resolution be made (what kind? I'm not an expert)?
 * other options/suggestions?

My own personal take is that the template coding group of users involved is quite capable, and that a merge process should go through. However, the Tfd was perhaps well-intentioned yet hasty and sloppy (with an admittedly unforeseeable but now reported disenfranchisement) that has led to an unequally-weighted merge process without the ability to preserve all the functionality of Geobox since it would be subject ot majority voting, and now a request to delete Geobox. I believe we should argue that no merge should go through without full implementation of Geobox river functionality, as previous full discussions have noted, and would have been stated in the present Tfd if a proper amount of time for the discussion had been allotted and if all interested parties had been included (and not disenfranchised, like your humble author). If that is not forthcoming, I believe we should should reopen the Tfd by some process of dispute resolution. What are your thoughts? --papageno (talk) 00:41, 16 November 2018 (UTC)


 * See my response here to your inquiry on this subject at Editor Assistance/Requests. Regards, TransporterMan  ( TALK ) 04:17, 16 November 2018 (UTC) (Not watching this page)


 * Thank you for requesting my perspective. I suggest we should consider the difference between what improvements might be theoretically possible, as outlined in earlier discussions, and what improvements are being actively pursued by motivated editors. While I am unaware of concerted implementation action on the alternative suggestions of the earlier discussion, it seems some editors are actively engaged in implementation of the recent decision. Wikipedia relies upon volunteer editors to create, sustain, and improve the information available. It is difficult to know what motivates individual editors, but I suggest discouraging active editors will be detrimental to the long term goals of Wikipedia. I would prefer to allow implementation of the recent decision; and, while recognizing the possibility of later improvements of the sort discussed earlier, await the emergence of editors willing to implement those improvements. Alternative actions to thwart the present improvement effort might be perceived as ownership and may discourage the type of collaboration necessary for a comprehensive Wikipedia. Thewellman (talk) 14:06, 16 November 2018 (UTC)
 * Thanks for your measured and thought-provoking response. A credit to Wikipedia. --papageno (talk) 18:59, 16 November 2018 (UTC)

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Chembox
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 * Thanks for your comment. While I am familiar with the project and with the suggested article format, I did not realize one should add the template to the talk page manually; I had always assumed it was added automatically by a bot. Further, though I am aware of the project, your comment was a good reason to have a thorough look through it, in particular article format, after not having done so for some time.  Best regards, and best of luck as you push through to the conclusion of your PhD, --papageno (talk) 23:39, 16 June 2020 (UTC)


 * Yeah, I thought tags were added automatically too, but the project doesn't currently have a bot. I actually have been looking into automation tools for the project in the past week. The project has suffered some from a lack of maintenance itself where old automation broke. I didn't see your name as in the project's members, but i'm glad you're already aware of the article resources. Cheers! Wolfgang8741 says: If not you, then who? (talk) 07:09, 17 June 2020 (UTC)

Florida, Ontario
I responded to your message at Florida, Ontario. This article has been such a tough one. Someplace in the past 10 years I read a brief history of Florida and some of the other northern farming communities, but darned if I could find the source online. I'm reluctant to use this source, as I'm not sure how reliable it is. I know you do a ton of editing on Canadian articles. If you come across anything about Florida it would be great. Cheers. Magnolia677 (talk) 23:43, 26 December 2020 (UTC)

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Nomination of Diver, Ontario for deletion
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Nomination of Osborne, Nipissing District for deletion
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Users may edit the article during the discussion, including to improve the article to address concerns raised in the discussion. However, do not remove the article-for-deletion notice from the top of the article until the discussion has finished. –dlthewave ☎ 04:21, 20 September 2023 (UTC)

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